Early Childhood
Development Index (ECDI)
ECDI
Early Childhood Development Index (ECDI)
Model Coefficients Summary
| (Intercept) |
40.1384058 |
5.7872045 |
6.935716 |
6.00e-07 |
| child_age_months |
0.6321739 |
0.1205624 |
5.243541 |
2.93e-05 |
- This chart shows the early childhood development index (ECDI) by
child’s age in months (blue bars), along with the line of best fit. The
summary statistics are presented in the table below.
- The gradient of the line of best fit is positive, which indicates a
positive relationship whereby as a child’s age increases, ECDI
increases. Specifically, for each additional month a child has, ECDI is
expected to increase by approximately 0.63 units.
- The p-value for this gradient is less than 0.05, indicating a
statistically significant relationship and that the observed results are
unlikely due to random chance.
- This is important to know because if a child is getting older, but
their ECDI is not increasing, there should be some intervention put in
place to ensure the child is learning and thriving in their
development.
Domains
Educational domains that contribute to ECDI
Model Coefficients Summary by Group
| Learning |
73.27971 |
0.3713043 |
5.324474 |
0.1109225 |
13.762806 |
3.3474202 |
0.0e+00 |
0.0029145 |
| Literacy and math |
-25.58261 |
0.7517391 |
4.381037 |
0.0912683 |
-5.839396 |
8.2365855 |
7.1e-06 |
0.0000000 |
| Physical |
92.54275 |
0.0526087 |
3.693321 |
0.0769414 |
25.056784 |
0.6837501 |
0.0e+00 |
0.5012720 |
| Socio-emotional |
62.87246 |
0.2939130 |
4.048757 |
0.0843461 |
15.528830 |
3.4846090 |
0.0e+00 |
0.0021002 |
- This chart shows the four educational domains that contribute to the
ECDI, by child’s age in months, along with the line of best fit. The
summary statistics are presented in the table below.
- The literacy and math domain had the strongest positive relationship
with literacy and math development increasing 0.75 units per month
increase in childs. This was statistically signficant (p<0.05),
indicating that as a child’s age increases, literacy and math skills
increase the most of the four domains.
- Learning and socio-emotional domains also had significant positive
relationships with child age in months.
- There was no statistically significant association found between
childs age in months and physical activity (p=0.5).
- Despite these observations, physical development was considerably
higher throughout 36-59 months than literacy and math indicating that
children generally develop physical skills at a younger age.
- It is important to note that there are some variations in
development indicator percentage, likely due to small sample sizes when
breaking the average down by month of age. As such, results may be
subject to noise and should be interpreted with this in mind.